Clothesline device



n. E. ROGANSON.

CLOTHESLiNE DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT 26, I919.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

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DAVID E. ROGANSON, 0F BRANFORD, connnctrrcur.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 9, 1921.

Application filed. September 26, 1919. Serial No. 326/178.

mechanism of this character wherein the clothes may be placed on and taken from a pulley line while standing within the walls of the building.

To these and other ends my invention consists in the clothes line device, having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, in which like numerals of reference designate like parts in the several figures;

Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of a portion of a building with my improved device connected therewith, the section being taken generally upon line 1-1 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of the interior of a building showing the inner door of my device in its up or open position.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates the outer wall of a building, 11 a door hinged thereto so as to swing on a vertical axis and having an opening 12 therethrough near the top thereof, 13 an inner door which is hinged at the top upon a horizontal axis with an inwardly projecting plate 14 near its bottom end, 15 is a pole or other convenient device fixed outside of the building at a point distant therefrom and with which is connected a pulley 16 through which operates the clothesline 17 that passes around a pulley 18 connected with the plate 141-. The door 13 may be held in its open or up position by any suitable means, but preferably by a rod 19, the lower end of which is held in a fixed socket 20,

invention relates to a new and im-. proved clothes hne device and has for itsobject, among other th1ngs, to provide a and the other end of which contacts with the I inside of the'door 13 when in its up position, as shown inFig. 2, and by broken lines 1n 1g. 1. In F 1g. 1 both doors are shown in their closed position and the open space.

therebetween may be used for closet purposes.

At this time the slack in'the clothes line is taken up by the hook 23. l/Vhen it is I desired to use the line to hold a washing the door-13 1s moved upwardly and. the line.

17 released from the "book 23, at which time the line will run freely over the pulleys 16 and 18 which support it at opposite ends;

After the clothes have been attached to the line 17 from inside of the house the door 11 is thrown open and the line 17 is moved so that the clothes travelinto the open air between the wall 10 and the pole 15,, after WhlCl'l the door- 11 is closed and also the door 13 f desired, the line being passed over the hook 23, to support it near its inner end.

To take the clothes from the 'line the above operations are reversed. WVith this" device the clothes are attached to the line while standing within the building and "alldanger of falling offan exposed platform or veranda 1s removed, and the device when not in operation is entirely concealed.

Having described my invention, what I Patent, is r In combination with-a structure having a floor and an inwardly extending horizontal ber, a clothes line engaged about the pulleys and means approximately beneaththerigid member to engage intermediate parts of the clothes line.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto afe fixedmy s1gnature.

vDav n E. ROGANSON.

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